hand from 5nl advice?

PokerStars No-Limit Hold'em, $0.05 BB (9 handed) - Poker-Stars Converter Tool from FlopTurnRiver.com

BB ($4.95)
UTG ($10.16)
UTG+1 ($9.95)
MP1 ($10)
MP2 ($10.12)
Hero (MP3) ($5)
CO ($5.88)
Button ($7.95)
SB ($5.42)

Preflop: Hero is MP3 with 8http://www.flopturnriver.com/phpBB2/...iles/heart.gif, Ahttp://www.flopturnriver.com/phpBB2/...iles/heart.gif
2 folds, MP1 calls $0.05, MP2 calls $0.05, Hero (poster) checks, CO calls $0.05, 1 fold, SB calls $0.03, BB checks

Flop: ($0.30) Qhttp://www.flopturnriver.com/phpBB2/...iles/heart.gif, 4http://www.flopturnriver.com/phpBB2/...iles/heart.gif, Khttp://www.flopturnriver.com/phpBB2/...es/diamond.gif (6 players)
SB checks, BB checks, MP1 checks, MP2 checks, Hero bets $0.10, CO raises to $0.40, 4 folds, Hero calls $0.30

Turn: ($1.10) 10http://www.flopturnriver.com/phpBB2/...iles/heart.gif (2 players)
Hero checks, CO bets $0.15, Hero calls $0.15

River: ($1.40) 10http://www.flopturnriver.com/phpBB2/...miles/club.gif (2 players)
Hero bets $1, CO raises to $3.60, Hero raises to $4.40 (All-In), CO calls $0.80

Total pot: $10.20 | Rake: $0.50

1. Never post early, always wait for the Big Blind.
2. It sucks he had a boat, other than that I think you needed to either check the flop or bet more.
3. On the turn I like the check but when he bets so little it's pretty evident that the hearts scare him so I would reraise there.
4. When the board pairs, check. Especially when it seems to him that he's hoping that you have the flush now. If he had a flush to begin with he would have bet more when the heart came up.

1. c/c flop. This multiway you're likely to have close to 0 chance of taking the pot down and we don't want to be raised.

2. Right, now we make our flush on the turn, we have 2 options c/r or lead. Villain has raised your bet on this flop in a 6 handed pot - it's likely his range is strong here. Your "slowplay" just completely fails to do what you called on the flop to do - win a big pot if you make your hand! We have no reason to think villain will have anything less than top pair so I probably just lead turn and river, but check/raising is decent too.

3. Don't check when the board pairs, you've massivley under-repped your hand as played so now bet it and extract some value. I'm not folding the nut flush on this river. He will have filled up here sometimes, but he can also have a worse flush or be spazzing with top pair or KQ. If you put money in on the turn like you should, you have an easy shove on the river.

By the way don't raise the turn because "the heart scares him". Raise the turn because his range is relatively strong and you have the nuts - ez game.

Pre-flop and flop action looks good to me. On the turn, though, I don't like the call. You have the nuts and best case you're losing out on value and worst case you're letting villain catch a boat. I think I would have re-raised and made it $0.85 cents to go.

To know if your river play is good or not, you'd have to know more about your villain. Hands that have you beat are KK, QQ, 44, TT, KT, QT, and T4. Against most villains, though you could probably eliminate KK, QQ, and TT because you'd expect a raise and you could probably eliminate T4 because it's just a weak hand. Hands that you could possibly expect to show up that YOU beat are: a lower flush, AJ, KQ, AT, JT, or T9.

Looking @ this snapshot, it appears you're beat just because typically when a villain is willing to get it all-in when an obvious flush is out there, they have that obvious flush beat. On the other hand, your 1/3 pot semi-bluff bet on the flop coupled with your weak, scared call on the turn could be interpreted by some villains that you didn't get a flush and gave them courage to try to push or steal with a hand you can beat.

With no reads, it's a tough call or re-raise because you've only put 29% of your stack and can still salvage the 71% left in a hand you would think MOST of the time you're beat. If the villain has proven to be loose or weak, then a call or re-raise is probably the best play, but I'd definitely like some reads and not just re-raise because a nut flush is a "good hand" and $5NL games have fish.

Raise PF, take the button, own their souls

Post-flop looks bad in the sense that we flop the NFD, turn the nut-flush, and just haven't got much money in the pot by the river.

bet that turn hard. and don't post just be patient a little bit

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Originally Posted by ArcadianRock

1. Never post early, always wait for the Big Blind.
I post in the CO and it's my most profitable position. You'd be surprised how weak most players are preflop when facing a posting.
2. It sucks he had a boat, other than that I think you needed to either check the flop or bet more.
Agreed. Do not build pots with drawing hands. Either take it down with a sizable bet or get villain to make mistakes (poor betting on drawy boards)
3. On the turn I like the check but when he bets so little it's pretty evident that the hearts scare him so I would reraise there.
We need to be getting in as many chips in as possible right now. Few reasons: villain is leading on a street after calling a bet on a prior street (usually strength); I can think of 28 cards that could be scare cards for either hero or villain (hearts, jacks, aces, nines, paired river cards); finally, how else are we going to get it all in?
4. When the board pairs, check. Especially when it seems to him that he's hoping that you have the flush now. If he had a flush to begin with he would have bet more when the heart came up.
As played, I am only checking if I have a sick read on villain that he now has a boat. 99% of the time I am making a blocking/value bet of anywhere between 1/3 - 2/3 pot.

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